The End (song)

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"The End" is a song composed by C418 that plays in The End, and is the longest track on the album.

"The End" is heavily built on modified versions of several tracks from Minecraft - Volume Alpha.^[1]. The track opens with vinyl static and the beginning part of the track "Minecraft", which slowly becomes more and more distorted and reverbed until it is barely recognizable. After it suddenly succumbs to excessive bitcrushing and glitching, it echoes out, and a low-pitched drone starts and grows slowly, eventually gaining a harmony of choir voices as the track becomes a very dark ambient piece with an ominous air of desolation and hopelessness.

Throughout the track, extremely distorted and/or remixed versions of parts of the tracks "Cat", "Haggstrom", "Dry Hands", "Wet Hands", "Équinoxe", "Subwoofer Lullaby", "Oxygène", and "Danny" from Minecraft - Volume Alpha can be heard, as ambient noises play in the background and build in intensity. The track slowly increases in volume as new layers of sounds fade in until it becomes much louder.

At the climax of this piece, a pulsing, one-note synth ostinato suddenly appears from the drone and is overlaid with a half-tempo rendition of the song "Sweden", which greatly increases in volume until the melody is overtaken by the choir and it abruptly stops with a motif from "Subwoofer Lullaby" and echoes out.

After a period of relative silence, the drone and ambience reappears, accompanied by soft, echoing chimes layered with reversed chimes, and then a sudden static hum brings in some very slowed down samples from "Minecraft".

The drone slowly fades away as an ambient wind sound comes in waves, and this wind sound continues for some time.

Then, the drone and ostinato quietly return for a very short time before another static hum interrupts the track and there is total silence, except for vinyl static.

A stuttered loop of a small portion of "Minecraft" begins, once again underneath a layer of vinyl static. An individual can be heard stopping the track by pushing a button on a turntable, and nothing but vinyl static can be heard for the remaining few seconds.

On Legacy Console Edition, the track was shortened to 6:55, trimming many longer sections of the song and shortening the beginning where "Minecraft" corrupts.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

In Java Edition, the music files can be found in .minecraft/assets/objects.^[a]

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, it can be found in:

• Mobile: com.mojang/resource_packs/music/vanilla_music/sounds/music/game/end/
• Windows: %PROGRAMFILES%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_<version>_x64_8wekyb3d8bbwe\data\resource_packs\vanilla_music\sounds\music\game\end

All music files are in Ogg Vorbis.

Issues relating to "The End (song)" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.